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Kosmova kreativní nápověda?
Kosma's Creative Help?

Author(s): Jiří Novotný
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Czech literature;hagiography;historiography;early middle ages;Ludmila;Kosmas;Mělník;Pšov

Summary/Abstract: The first book of Kosma’s Chronicle of Bohemia shows a significant anomaly. Kosmas violated the continuous chronological composition of the first book and, describing the beginnings of the Christianization of Bohemia in the second half of the 9th century, inserted an extensive episode between the dates of Prince Bořivoj I and his wife Ludmila about the death of the lucky prince Vlastislav. It is possible that the oldest Czech chronicler indirectly – but consciously – drew attention to the true origin of Princess and later saint Ludmila, about whom there are still disputes.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 533-560
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Czech